Data Abstract

China's Income Distribution Project (1988-92), funded by Ford Foundation, was
conducted by Institute of Economic Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science in
collaboration with some foreign scholars such as Keith Griffin, Carl Riskin and
John Knight. China's income survey consists of two parts: urban and rural. The size
of the urban sample is 9009 households and the rural one is 10258. Items surveyed
include basic information of both the sample households and their members, focusing
on income and wage, sources of income and household expenditure. For the rural households,
information of their assets and debts, sale and consumption of their products, and
purchase of production means were also collected.

The 1995 survey records information on urban and rural household income and expenditure
of that year. Because of the change in the economic structure in China, the questionnaire
was redesigned to reflect this change.